Find related search results highlighting key committees and sponsors.
AI agents call search_related to retrieve information from Gov info api without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries government information data to find related search results. It performs a read-only operation that returns information about committees and sponsors without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any actions.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_related' and description 'Find related search results highlighting key committees and sponsors' indicate query and retrieval operations with no data modification, deletion, or execution capabilities.
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Find related search results highlighting key committees and sponsors. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Gov info api MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Gov info api MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_related: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Gov info api. Nothing to install.
search_related is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the search_related rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for search_related. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
search_related is provided by the Gov info api MCP server (n00dlefr34k/gov-info-api-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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